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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infant-formula-and-follow-on-formula-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/213",
  "legislation_title": "Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infant-formula-and-follow-on-formula-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations amend the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (S.R. 1995 No. 85) (“the principal Regulations”), which implemented inter alia Commission Directive 91/321/EEC (O.J. No. L175, 4.7.91, p. 35) on infant formulae and follow-on formulae, so as to take account of amendments made to that Directive by Commission Directive 96/4/EC (O.J. No. L49, 28/2/96, p. 12).\nThe amendments now being made relate to the labelling of infant and follow-on formula (regulation 2, (d), (e), (f) and (g), and to compositional criteria etc. including those contained in various Schedules (regulation 2(c), (h), (i), (j) and (k)). A new schedule, Schedule 8 (reference values for nutrition labelling for foods intended for infants and young children), is added (regulation 2(1)).\nThere is an amendment to regulation 2(2) so that the sale of infant formulae or follow-on formulae which do not comply with the labelling requirements of regulation 5(4A) (inserted in the principal Regulations by these Regulations) is prohibited (regulation 2(a)), References to the Food (Lot Marking) Regulations (Northern Ireland) are updated (regulation 2(b)).\nRegulation 3 contains a transitional provision which provides that it is not an offence, before 31st March 1999, to sell or export infant formulae or follow-on formulae which do not comply with the principal Regulations but which do comply with the provisions of the principal Regulations before amendment by these Regulations.\nIn Great Britain the corresponding Regulations are the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula (Amendment) Regulations 1997. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has prepared a compliance cost assessment in relation to those regulations and a copy of that assessment is held at Health Protection, Department of Health and Social Services, Annexe 4, Castle Buildings, Stormont, Belfast BT4 3RA from where a copy may be obtained on request.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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